Eva von Contzen

Dr. Eva von Contzen is currently assistant professor at the chair of Old and Middle English Language, Literature and Culture at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. Following her M.A. studies in Classics and English literature, she worked as a research assistant in a project devoted to the neo-Latin biblical epic Christiad by Marco Girolamo Vida (2009-2012) and completed her PhD on narrative forms and functions in medieval saints’ lives in 2012. From 2013–2014, she was awarded a junior fellowship at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) where she began a new project on lists in literature. Since 2014, she is the principal investigator of an interdisciplinary network devoted to “Medieval narratology,” funded by the German Research Foundation. Her research focuses on medieval narrative, lists and catalogues in literary texts, the intersections of sanctity and literature in the Middle Ages, narrative theory, time and temporality, periodization, and the reception of classical literature.